Seminar in psychometrics

This seminar covers computational aspects of psychometrics. It features local and visiting scholars who are invited to present current psychometric research. Talks are complemented by practical demonstrations in R, using educational, psychological and other behavioral data. Seminar can be taken repeatedly.

Taught as a course NMST571 at Charles University. Enroll in SIS and Moodle.
Jointly held as the seminar of the COMputational PSychometrics group at the Institute of Computer Science of the Czech Academy of Sciences and of CEMP. Seminar is co-hosted by Jiří Lukavský.
Webpage of a related course Selected topics in psychometrics
Previous years: 2019, 2020, 2021

News

Dec 27, 2021 Hybrid form is expected, link for the ZOOM sessions will be sent to registered students and other participants via e-mail on February 15, 2022. If you want to participate as a guest, please send me an e-mail.
Jan 12, 2022 Google form for questions is available at this link.

Tentative course schedule 2022

Seminar is planned on Tuesdays, 3:40 - 5:10 PM CET, room K4, Sokolovská 83, Praha 8 - Karlín. Invited talks are approximatelly 60 minutes long, followed by a discussion.

Feb 15 Welcome message by e-mail (no meeting)
Feb 22 Seminar meeting: Introduction Slides
Feb 22 Seminar meeting: Introduction Slides Code
March 1 Reading assigned (no meeting) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
March 8 Invited talk: Dakota Cintron (UC San Francisco): A Latent Dirichlet Allocation Model of Action Patterns Abstract Video
March 15 Reading assigned (no meeting)
March 22 Seminar meeting Data
Th March 31 (2:30pm) Invited talk: Michela Battauz (University of Udine): Equating and DIF detection in the IRT framework Abstract Video Reading 12 Slides Code
April 5 Reading assigned (no meeting)
April 12 Seminar meeting
April 19 Invited talk: David Magis (IQVIA Belux): Computerized adaptive and multistage testing: overview, challenges and applications Abstract Video Reading 12 Slides Code
April 26 Reading assigned (no meeting)
May 3 Invited talk: Yves Rosseel (Ghent University): The structural-after-measurement (SAM) approach to structural equation modeling Abstract Reading 123 Slides Code
May 10 Invited talk: Irini Moustaki (London School of Economics and Political Science): Detection of two-way outliers in multivariate data and application to cheating detection in educational tests Abstract Reading 1
May 17 Seminar meeting: Closing


Course credit requirements

The credit will be awarded to the student who is actively present and who hands in feedback by the prescribed deadline.

Course texts

Computational aspects of psychometric methods. With R. (Book in preparation)
Manuscripts related to invited talks.






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